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(Secrecy, Continued)
• Unconditionally waive all search
and copying fees for UFO
documents.
As to the public's role in this
protracted UFO paper chase, the press
release calls upon the American people
"to come forward with any information
concerning UFO's and this
government's suppression of UFO
evidence."
With this milestone in the politics
DOCUMENT IDENTITY
NORAD (North American Air Defense
Command) 28th Region Senior Director's
instructions, 12 Oct 77
NSA report, "UFO Hypothesis and
Survival Questions," circa late 1968
Standard Air Force form-letter reply to
queries and Fact Sheet in use since about
1975 (first page only)
"Rees Letter": AFOSI (Air Force Office of
Special Investigations) 17th District,
Kirtland AFB, N.M. (letter to director of
AFOSI, 25 May 50)
"Chadwell Memo": CIA Office of
Scientific Intelligence (OSI) memorandum
to CIA director, 2 Dec 52 (pages
combined, attachments removed)
"Algerian Case": American Embassy,
Algiers, Algeria; message to State Dept., 7
Mar 75
"NORAD Classified Message": NORAD
Director of Operations message to
Secretary of the Air Force, et al., 13 Nov
75 (still classified CONFIDENTIAL;
of UFOIogy, can we predict that the
new decade of the eighties will be
known as the Age of UFO
Enlightenment? Perhaps... especially if
CAUS/Gersten can acquire the
financial backing and public support
that the ongoing and planned litigation
demands. And especially if we can
diminish this truism expressed by Mort
Young in his book UFO: Top Secret:
Government-sponsored studies pertaining
to extraterrestrial life have shown that
TABLE -- Press-Release Documentation Summary
COMMENTARY
UFO's are extremely bad politics. Their
effects can be damaging: so severe, in fact,
that more than one government would
topple. Political stability cannot be
guaranteed if these ridiculous-seeming
flying saucers are actually journeying from
another world; even to admit the possibility
is tantamount to political suicide. Consider:
Would you vote for a Presidential candidate
who had as a platform plank the promise to
get to the bottom of the UFO mystery, who
stated he would employ the Army, Navy,
and Air Force as UFO hunters when and
where necessary? No political party could
survive the nomination of such a candidate.
Who would dare vote for a maniac?
Titled "Replies to UFO Reports," this 1-page standing operating procedure was
issued to clarify the publicly announced role of the Air Force in processing
sighting reports relayed by "local citizens." It emphasizes the semantic
distinction between "UFO" and "UNK" ["unknown"].
Made available apparently in a lapse of forethought to researcher Robert Todd,
this curious, 7-page survey of the philosophical side of official UFOIogy bears no
author's by-line and, in this rough-draft form, contains no references to any
other NSA-produced literature on UFOIogy.
Bearing the subject "Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the
New Mexico Area, December 1948 - May 1950," this formerly
CONFIDENTIAL, 3-page letter (minus 4 inclosures) contains possible leads to
as-yet-unreleased UFO documentation. One of these might be RAND
Corporation Report EHO-41 (25 July 1951), titled "Report of Aerial Phenomena,
Holloman AFB, 21 February 1950 through 31 April 1951," by Edward T. Doty.
(Efforts are underway to acquire a copy of the RAND document, and if any
reader knows its whereabouts, (s)he is encouraged to contact this column.)
In addition to exposing the U.S. intelligence community's behind-the-scenes
concern about the ostensible myth of flying saucers, this classic factor in the
evolution of the politics of UFOIogy also confirms the veiled CIA references
contained in the 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, by
former USAF Project Blue Book chief Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt.
Among the recipients of this telegram about Algerian UFO sightings were the
U.S. Commander-in-Chief, Europe; the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Navy,
Europe; and the Commander, U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet. It is not known whether
any of these addressees bothered to respond to the embassy's plea for a
"serious reply" by which to explain to Algerian officials the origin of the reported
strange "machines."
This and the five associated documents listed below formed the basis for the
serious interest shown by The Washington Post and The New York Times in
the late-1975 "unknown air activity" over/near U.S. military installations. They
also gave rise to a new entry in the lexicon of UFOIogy: "clear intent."
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